The kids are more than all right
Are we in a golden age of child acting?
By Don Aucoin Globe Staff,Updated April 29, 2021, 3:55 p.m.
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Isla Johnston and Bill Camp in The Queen s Gambit. COURTESY OF NETFLIX/Associated Press
Earlier this month, on an episode of NBCâs âThis Is Us,â teenage Tess (Eris Baker) was kissing her non-binary partner when her mother suddenly walked in on them. In the immediate aftermath, Baker achingly conveyed the quiet devastation of Tessâs realization that something had shifted in her relationship with her mother, possibly irrevocably.
In âGodzilla vs. Kong,â Kaylee Hottle is a standout as Jia, a deaf child whoâs the only one who can communicate with Kong. The expressions of empathy and resolve that flicker across Hottleâs face register more vividly than the skyscraper-smashing battles between the titular titans.
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Amid all the (deserved) hoopla for Netflix’s “The Queens Gambit,” there’s one character who is often overlooked: Mr. Shaibel, the janitor who sparks the chess obsession in our young heroine. But Bill Camp’s performance understated, taciturn and, in the end, generous is as critical as any of the leads. That’s part of Camp’s talent: No matter where the Massachusetts native turns up including “News of the World,” filmed with wife Elizabeth Marvel, and HBO’s “The Outsider” he makes his contribution, whatever size, essential. Armed with a SAG nomination for his “Gambit” role, Camp dialed in from lockdown in Vermont to talk with The Envelope about his own Mr. Shaibel, overcoming his competitiveness and bribing his son.
Based on: “Emma” by Jane Austen, 1815
Verdict: While it doesn’t match “Clueless” for sheer wit and invention, Catton’s delightfully arch adaptation gets a lot of fresh comic mileage out of well-worn material and benefits, like all “Emma” adaptations, from Austen’s most ingeniously constructed story. Justin Chang
Haley Bennett, left, Glenn Close and Owen Asztalos in the movie “Hillbilly Elegy” on Netflix and the book by J.D. Vance.
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Netflix. Written by Vanessa Taylor, directed by Ron Howard
Based on: “Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis” by J.D. Vance, 2016
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